Image schemas have been proposed as conceptual building blocks corresponding to the hypothesised most fundamental embodied experiences. We formally investigate how combinations of image schemas (or 'image schematic profiles') ...

Several alternatives to manage large XML document collections exist, ranging from file systems over relational or other database systems to specifically tailored XML base management systems. In this paper we review Natix, ...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) Systems have been studied extensively for more than a decade to confront the "information overload" problem. Nearest-neighbor CF is based either on similarities between users or between items, ...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) Systems have been studied extensively for more than a decade to confront the "information overload" problem. Nearest-neighbor CF is based either on common user or item similarities, to form the ...

When you call a doctor, you would expect that she would be prepared with a set of remedies for your disease. You would not be pleased to see her digging into a huge amount of clinical data while she makes a diagnosis and ...

In this paper we define a class of nested logic programs, nested logic programs with ordered disjunction (LPODs+), which allows to specify qualitative preferences by means of nested preference expressions. For doing this ...

In this paper, we define a class of nested logic programs, called Nested Logic Programs with Ordered Disjunction (LPODs), which makes it possible to specify conditional (qualitative) preferences by means of nested preference ...

We present algebraic equivalences that allow to unnest nested algebraic expressions for order-preserving algebraic operators. We illustrate how these equivalences can be applied successfully to unnest nested queries given ...

Despite multiple description coding (MDC) paradigm is effective to combat packet losses on networks, it is not included in any multimedia co-decoding standard. This can be justified by the complexity of the redundancy ...

Transform-based lossy compression has a huge potential for hyperspectral data reduction. In this paper we propose a lossy compression scheme for hyperspectral data based on a new low-complexity version of the Karhunen-Loève ...

Online social networks have attracted users' attention in the last decade. Recommendation services constitute a critical functionality of such social platforms: users receive recommendations about resources (documents, ...

We consider the efficient solution of linear systems with multiple shifts and multiple right-hand sides given simultaneously that arise frequently in large-scale scientific and engineering simulations. We introduce a new ...

Introduction
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 21th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2017, held ...

In the last few years, research on database and information system technologies has been rapidly evolving thanks to the new paradigms of software and hardware adopted by modern scientific and more invasive applications. A ...

The study of node-selection query languages for (finite) trees has been a major topic in the recent research on query lan- guages for Web documents. On one hand, there has been an extensive study of XPath and its various ...

Recent results show that ontology consistency is undecidable for a wide variety of fuzzy Description Logics (DLs). Most notably, undecidability arises for a family of inexpressive fuzzy DLs using only conjunction, existential ...

One of the most impending drawbacks of modern information technology and communication devices is the problem of user interfacing. The focus of the research community to tackle this problem is almost exclusively set to the ...

This article presents modal versions of resource-conscious logics. We concentrate on extensions of variants of linear logic with one minimal non-normal modality. In earlier work, where we investigated agency in multi-agent ...